Blanca Aldana

Blanca Aldana

Associate Professor


  1. E-pub ahead of print

    Increased glucose metabolism and impaired glutamate transport in human astrocytes are potential early triggers of abnormal extracellular glutamate accumulation in hiPSC-derived models of Alzheimer's disease

    Salcedo, C., Pozo Garcia, V., Garcia-Adan, B., Ameen, Aisha, Gegelashvili, G., Waagepetersen, Helle S., Freude, Kristine & Aldana, Blanca, 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Neurochemistry.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Hippocampal disruptions of synaptic and astrocyte metabolism are primary events of early amyloid pathology in the 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    Andersen, Jens Velde, Skotte, Niels Henning, Christensen, S. K., Polli, F. S., Shabani, M., Markussen, K. H., Haukedal, H., Westi, Emil Winther, Diaz-delCastillo, M., Sun, R. C., Kohlmeier, Kristi Anne, Schousboe, Arne, Gentry, M. S., Tanila, H., Freude, Kristine, Aldana, Blanca, Mann, Matthias & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 2021, In: Cell Death & Disease. 12, 11, 13 p., 954 .

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Golgi fragmentation: One of the earliest organelle phenotypes in Alzheimer's disease neurons

    Haukedal, H., Corsi, G. I., Gadekar, V. P., Doncheva, N. T., Kedia, S., de Haan, N., Chandrasekaran, A., Jensen, P., Schiønning, P., Vallin, S., Marlet, F. R., Poon, A., Pires, C., Agha, F. K., Wandall, H. H., Cirera, S., Simonsen, A. H., Nielsen, T. T., Nielsen, J. E., Hyttel, P. & 7 others, Muddashetty, R., Aldana, Blanca, Gorodkin, Jan, Nair, D., Meyer, M., Larsen, M. R. & Freude, Kristine, 2023, In: Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17, 17 p., 1120086.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Glutamate-glutamine homeostasis is perturbed in neurons and astrocytes derived from patient iPSC models of frontotemporal dementia

    Aldana, Blanca, Zhang, Y., Jensen, P., Chandrasekaran, Abinaya, Christensen, S. K., Nielsen, T. T., Nielsen, Jørgen Erik, Hyttel, P., Larsen, M. R., Waagepetersen, Helle S. & Freude, Kristine, 2020, In: Molecular Brain. 13, 1, 7 p., 125.

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  5. Published

    Glutamate metabolism and recycling at the excitatory synapse in health and neurodegeneration

    Andersen, Jens Velde, Markussen, K. H., Jakobsen, Emil, Schousboe, Arne, Waagepetersen, Helle S., Rosenberg, P. A. & Aldana, Blanca, 2021, In: Neuropharmacology. 196, 14 p., 108719.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Glutamate homeostasis revisited - neuronal transport and metabolism

    Waagepetersen, Helle S., McNair, Laura M., Christensen, S. K., Andersen, Jens Velde & Aldana, Blanca, 2019, p. 19-19.

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  7. Published

    Generation of a set of isogenic, gene-edited iPSC lines homozygous for all main APOE variants and an APOE knock-out line

    Schmid, B., Prehn, K. R., Nimsanor, N., Aldana, Blanca, Poulsen, U., Jorring, I., Rasmussen, M. A., Clausen, C., Mau-Holzmann, U. A., Ramakrishna, S., Muddashetty, R., Steeg, R., Bruce, K., Mackintosh, P., Ebneth, A., Holst, B. & Cabrera-Socorro, A., 2019, In: Stem Cell Research. 34, 6 p., 101349.

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Functional Metabolic Mapping Reveals Highly Active Branched-Chain Amino Acid Metabolism in Human Astrocytes, Which Is Impaired in iPSC-Derived Astrocytes in Alzheimer's Disease

    Salcedo, C., Andersen, Jens Velde, Vinten, K. T., Pinborg, Lars Hageman, Waagepetersen, Helle S., Freude, Kristine & Aldana, Blanca, 2021, In: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 13, 736580.

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  9. Published

    Fibroblast-Derived Lysyl Oxidase Increases Oxidative Phosphorylation and Stemness in Cholangiocarcinoma

    Lewinska, M., Zhuravleva, E., Satriano, L., Martinez, M. B., Bhatt, D. K., Oliveira, D. V. N. P., Antoku, Y., Keggenhoff, F. L., Castven, D., Marquardt, J. U., Matter, M. S., Erler, J. T., Oliveira, R. C., Aldana, B. I., Al-Abdulla, R., Perugorria, M. J., Calvisi, D. F., Perez, L. A., Rodrigues, P. M., Labiano, I. & 2 others, Banales, J. M. & Andersen, Jesper Bøje, 2023, In: Gastroenterology. 166, 5, p. 886-901

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  10. Published

    Fats, Friends or Foes: Investigating the Role of Short- and Medium-Chain Fatty Acids in Alzheimer’s Disease

    Ameen, Aisha, Freude, Kristine & Aldana, Blanca, 2022, In: Biomedicines. 10, 11, 2778.

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